Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Me, My Guru – On attachments, faith and commitments....



Me, My Guru – On attachments, faith and commitments....



“Now this sweeper would see God standing day after day from morn to night as devotees come in hundreds to seek His blessings. Sweeper’s heart went out to God. He felt the tiredness of God and also the pain in God’s legs. He was moved with pity, affection and concern. In his innocence he told “God, I can see how tired you must be standing there day after day. Let me stand on your behalf for a day as you can rest a bit”.

God smiled and agreed but added “but as you stand there in my place, you’ve to follow a golden rule of not moving or saying anything. You just should stand and see everything silently and do nothing about it”.


“This is a child’s game” thought the sweeper”.

I had come when the session was already in progress. Initially, I would create lots of noise taking out and adjusting my papers, drinking water and with such activities. I would even say ‘hi, hello’ to everyone. Now I’ve come a long way from then. I would go and silently sit at the back. Today I can see how insensitively selfish was I! Now I don’t create pandemonium to go front. Of late, I’ve even stopped asking others as to what I missed. If I came late, I didn’t deserve to disturb others with my ‘assumed eagerness to learn’. So today I didn’t know how and when the session started and in what relation was this story being told by her (our Guru). Yet, I didn’t feel the need to as I sat silently listening to her today. She may have said it from other angle for all I know but I got my answers for my questions which remained so inspite of being answered so many times.

“Why didn’t I have the innocence of that sweeper?” I asked myself umpteen numbers of times that day and in the days to come. I was the one to go to God ONLY SEEKING and demanding or complaining about something or the other. But I never for once felt bad for GOD! Yes, wouldn’t HE be vexed of hearing our cribbing, hate words, angry bickering, our cries and what not? Wouldn’t he be tired? Wouldn’t His ears ache with all those words? Wouldn’t He want to run away from all of us? Yet He never did! Was this ‘Love’ that I didn’t get to see and validate all these years? Was deep in selfishness was I wallowing to be so ‘me-centric’?

Why did I never ‘do’ anything to work for Him to relax?


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